"Important? Of course they're important! Do you even need to ask?" Sylvanas said without hesitation.
"They've been dead for ten thousand years, even a million. How can they help you? What can they give you? Why do they still matter?" Yu Lin Bloodhawk asked. "Beasts don't know who their ancestors were, and they don't care. Aren't they doing just fine?"
For a moment, Sylvanas was lost. She had only ever felt instinctively that ancestors mattered, but suddenly, she did not know how to explain why.
"Were the robbers wrong to fabricate their ancestors? Was that vassal state wrong to deceive its people? Why did they do it?" Yu Lin Bloodhawk asked again.
Confusion filled Sylvanas's eyes. She opened her mouth blankly to answer, but did not know what to say. If she did not know why ancestors mattered, how could she judge whether the robbers and that vassal state were right or wrong? But why did ancestors matter?
"Is that so hard to answer?" Yu Lin Bloodhawk asked.
Sylvanas remained silent. It was not that she did not want to answer, but that she did not know how. She had never considered this question before.
Yu Lin Bloodhawk stood up and said, "To understand this, you first need to ask yourself whether the name Windrunner matters to you, because it represents the ancestors closest to you. What does it give you? Why does it matter so much? Is it really nothing more than a surname?"
Sylvanas gave it serious thought.
Yu Lin Bloodhawk did not disturb her again.
After a long while, Sylvanas nodded and said, "I understand. You're doing what that vassal state did."
"Yes, that's exactly what I'm doing."
Yu Lin Bloodhawk nodded and said, "Because I don't know how the people of Quel'Thalas understand gods, or what